Damian Abraham has been many things... the singer of a critically acclaimed band, a failed VJ and food network host, one of the minds behind TV's "The Wrestlers", parent of 3... and undeniably, a punk music obsessive. Each week, he sits down and chats with an interesting person from various walks of life to find out how their world was influenced and changed by the discovery of a novelty genre that supposedly died out in 1978... PUNK!
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Episode 17 - Nick Woj (Cold World)
This week on Turned Out A Punk, join Damian as he talks to Cold World's drummer/mastermind Nicholas Wojciechowski about the ascetic battle of rap, and aggressive music that led him to having never been able to read a review of his band that doesn’t mention Rap Metal. Also touched on in this episode: -Getting catalogs -The blue grass roots of Cold World -Solo-Straight-Edge-Raving -The independent study time afforded to only-children -Seeing Ill Repute for your first show… the “Big Rusty Balls” era though -Bedford: The kings of the Wilkes-Barre PA -Politics in service of ego -No dissing Rolling-On-The-Floorcore -Back before Revelation put the greats back into print -“Which was the good CroMags lp?” -The Holy Trinity of Youth Crew revival -POS-TOPS not even a sledgehammer could break: Wilkes-Barre Youth crew -Loving and dressing for Rap -Dudes growing weed in the lockers -Beef with “The Hicks” -Open racism in high school assembly -Collecting to DJ every genre of danceable music -Liking Floorpunch in spite of a backlash -Being on a CD comp with Psywarfare -The Rap influence -The influence of Locking Out -Greg Wilmott and Mark McCoy: perennial hardcore tastemakers -Sitting in rooms reading magazines and books to avoid gun-wielding kids -Having to play to a Cold World merch line. -The easy of being cool in 2015: easier to pose -Anime -The REAL Inside Out